{"id":104302,"date":"2020-11-08T15:03:04","date_gmt":"2020-11-08T09:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=104302"},"modified":"2020-11-09T12:29:08","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T06:59:08","slug":"bihar-congress-key-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/bihar-election\/bihar-congress-key-candidates\/","title":{"rendered":"Bihar Congress: Key Candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Congress has fielded its candidates on 70 assembly seats. In the last two decades, the party has not won 45 seats, while 12 have been won by either the BJP or its ally JD(U). In these elections, 23 of the seats in the Congress\u2019 kitty are those it had bagged in the last elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are the key candidates from Congress party contesting these elections:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subhashini Bundela<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Daughter of former JD(U) leader and union minister Sharad Yadav, Subhashini is Congress candidate from Bihariganj Assembly seat. Yadav holds the record of having won Madhepura seat four times over. Subhashini had joined the Congress in mid-October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mashkoor Ahmad Usmani<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Congress candidate from Jale Assembly seat in Bihar’s Darbhanga is in contest with BJP’s sitting MLA Jiibesh Kumar Mishra. Usmani was embroiled in controversy after he was elected as president of Aligharh Muslim University Student’s Union. In the ongoing election campaign by BJP, he is being labelled as a sympathiser of Mohammad Ali Jinnah. In 2018, BJP alleged that Usmani opposed the call to remove Jinnah’s portrait from the student union’s office. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gunjan Patel <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bihar Youth Congress president Gunjan Patel has been fielded from Nalanda seat by Congress party. He is pitted against Shrawon Kumar, who is serving as the Minister of Rural Development and Parliamentary Affairs in the Nitish Kumar cabinet. It would be a close fight as Kumar holds a strong grip in Nalanda. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amita Bhushan<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mahila Congress chief Amita Bhushan is contesting from Begusarai constituency in the ongoing elections. She has represented the constituency in the Bihar Vidhan Sabha since 2015. She had defeated Surendra Mehta of BJP in 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read Also:BJP\u2019s Bihar poll campaign: Development, jungle raj, Ram Mandir, Article 370, CAA<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Luv Sinha<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bollywood actor-turned-politician Shatrughan Sinha’s son Luv Sinha is making his debut in the current Bihar assembly election. Luv, 37, is the Congress candidate from Bankipore. He will be contesting against BJP’s three-time MLA Nitin Navin. The Bankipore seats come under the Patna Sahib constituency which elected his father twice when he was in the saffron party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Congress has fielded its candidates on 70 assembly seats. In the last two decades, the party has not won 45 seats, while 12 have been won by either the BJP or its ally JD(U). In these elections, 23 of the seats in the Congress\u2019 kitty are those it had bagged in the last elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":104314,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[98262],"tags":[98326,97248,98327,98329,98330,98328,98331],"yst_prominent_words":[4101,30081,6008,20827,5697,3813,13677,7966,24205,6035,3876,4023,30082,24203,24283],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2020\/11\/08133736\/congress-candidates.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104302"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104302"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=104302"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=104302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}